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E/C.12/GRC/CO/2 14. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to reduce unemployment, in particular unemployment among young persons and women, with a view to moving progressively towards the full realization of the right to work, inter alia, by: (a) Strengthening the programmes and strategies aimed at reducing unemployment rates and ensuring that policies to promote employment effectively target groups disproportionately affected by unemployment; (b) Addressing the causes of youth unemployment, creating employment opportunities for young people and enhancing the quality of technical and vocational training and education, taking into account labour market opportunities, including by implementing the National Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan, which entered into force in 2013; (c) Reinforcing the support for jobseekers, with special focus on the longterm unemployed, including by providing them with adequate training to enhance their skills; (d) Continuing to assess the impact of the economic and fiscal measures taken during the financial and economic crisis on the labour market and, in particular, on the enjoyment of the right to work. The Committee refers the State party to its general comment No. 18 (2005) on the right to work. Equality between men and women 15. Despite the steps taken to promote equality between men and women, the Committee is concerned about the persistent and significant wage gap between women and men and women’s overrepresentation in part-time employment. It remains concerned that women are still underrepresented in all levels of political and public life, including in decision-making positions. The Committee is concerned that in the election of September 2015 the representation of women in the Hellenic Parliament reached only 19 per cent and that the new Government has seven women in the Cabinet, despite the one-third quota for women candidates (art. 3). 16. In the light of the Committee’s previous recommendations (see E/C.12/1/Add.97, para. 13) and general comment No. 16 (2005) on the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Take proactive measures to provide men and women with equal career opportunities by promoting the pursuit of education and training in fields that are traditionally dominated by either sex; (b) Take measures to close the gender wage gap, including efforts to combat horizontal and vertical occupational sex segregation in the labour market; (c) Promote women’s access to high-level positions in the public and private sectors, including by adopting and implementing temporary special measures, and address obstacles to their career advancement; (d) Systematically implement the one-third quota of women candidates and ensure that women enjoy equal rights in political and decision-making positions. 4

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Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Greece

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Right to adequate housing
Right to education
Right to food
Right to health
Right to social security
Right to work
Rights of migrants/non-citizens
Rights of older persons
Rights of persons with disabilities
Rights of the child
Rights of women and girls

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Accountability
Extraterritorial obligations
Non-discrimination
Progressive realization
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International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: Oct 27, 2015

Summary: In their Concluding Observations of Greece, the CESCR provides recommendations to the State party to take measures to promote nondiscrimination, gender equality, and the range of ESCR, particularly for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. On resources, the Committee reminds the State party of its obligation under the Covenant to respect, protect and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights progressively, to the maximum of its available resources. While acknowledging that certain adjustments are at times inevitable, the Committee draws the State party’s attention to the Committee’s open letter of 16 May 2012 to States parties on economic, social and cultural rights in the context of the economic and financial crisis, in particular to the recommendations contained therein with regard to the requirements resulting from the Covenant regarding the applicability of austerity measures. In that context, the Committee recommends that the State party review the policies and programmes adopted in the framework of the memorandums of understanding implemented since 2010, and any other subsequent post-crisis economic and financial reforms, with a view to ensuring that austerity measures are progressively waived and the effective protection of the rights under the Covenant is enhanced in line with the progress achieved in the post-crisis economic recovery. The State party should further ensure that its obligations under the Covenant are duly taken into account when negotiating financial assistance projects and programmes, including with international financial institutions.

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